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>>The mad rush for begging for points seems to have simmered down; I'm going to be a bit more selective about the topics I get involved with, I think. (I've also stretched the capacities of the user filter almost to its limits...)
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>Ed,
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>I agree totally about the begging. As someone who uses UT primarily to get answers, and occasionally to give them when I can, I find the points system useful when trying to locate a solution, but it started turning into a 1st grade "gold star" kind of thing. Plus, like the direction some of our educational institutions are heading, it seems that it was losing some of it's value as they were given out for such things as being quick and handy with the search engine or because it was asked for.
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>Renoir

Did you that because you are about to slip out of the top 10 in the list of points?

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